Creating workable solutions to climate change isn’t easy, but human beings have a history of overcoming obstacles in difficult times (as we've said before, ending the slave trade was once similarly …
Two Interactive Graphics to Illuminate the UN Climate Report’s Latest Findings
After much anticipation, the U.N. recently released its Fifth Assessment Report on climate change, leaving us with more certainty than ever that we need to do more to address the effects of climate …
Climate Interactive Showcases Drought and Displacement Simulation before UN
As global warming advances, much of the planet’s most vulnerable population is already seeing its livelihood affected. In some cases, the effect is so strong that people must uproot their lives …
World Climate Leaves MIT Students with Important Insights
For years, Climate Interactive’s World Climate exercise has been used in classrooms and conferences around the world to help students and professionals better understand the challenges facing …
What is an Elephant? 5 Ways Systems Thinking Helps Action on Climate
Cross-posted from Climate Access. Where do you spend your time working on climate change amid the many stakeholders, complex biogeochemical processes, and thousands of laws, rules, and incentives? …
John Sterman and the Dalai Lama: Investigating Growth with a Piece of Paper
Here’s a fun game you can play to get acquainted with systems thinking: Take a sheet of paper and fold it in half. Now fold it in half again. Keep going until you’ve folded it six times. At this …
Innovate Podcast Features Climate Interactive, Impact of Systems Thinking
“Not only are problems interconnected, but often solutions are interconnected as well.” -Beth Sawin In the latest edition of the bi-monthly Innovate Podcast, which features interviews with …
Gas Alone Not a Bridge to Two Degrees
Think Progress blogger Joe Romm takes Climate Interactive's analysis on the lifetime of fossil fuel infrastructure to build the case that natural gas is not a bridge to a carbon free future. His post …
Senators Connect the Dots on Climate
Calls from US political leaders to address the root causes of climate change are rare enough to be worth noting and celebrating when they happen, so I was pleased to read about a letter to President …
Success Translating & Playing the World Climate Exercise in Spanish
Through simulating the UN climate negotiations, the World Climate Exercise has opened the minds of thousands to the challenges and opportunities to addressing climate change. Now this game is …
Mothers Talk Climate Using Climate Bathtub Analogy
In the Boston area, as in other places, parents are coming together to discuss how they can address climate change and discuss the issue with their children in a constructive way. University of …
MIT Professor: We Ended the Slave Trade, We Can End Fossil Fuel Use
In this interview Climate Interactive team member and MIT Professor John Sterman describes how slavery was once an integral source of energy for our society and yet we realized how wrong it was and …